https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4854584 Chrome browser Hi guys! I often do fungi IDs, and specifically look up kingdom-kingdom level observations, because that’s the path of least resistance, and I feel like I can improve the data the most there. I’ve noticed many IDs identified down to …

It looks like that first one reported is now showing up as genus instead of family, so I’ll close this report. The database/indexing errors are hard to troubleshoot but feel free to send further examples to help@inaturalist.org or open up a new bug report if you notice them.

[image] benkendrick: Is this a bug, or is this a relic from an older time? probably “yes” Next time you see this, try voting and unvoting something in the Data Quality Assessment section before posting another ID. It will probably flip to the genus ID.

Just to confirm [inatbug2] Basically just thumbs down, then thumbs up something in here, and see if it refreshes? Ill do that next time I see one of these and let you know if it works :)

yep! exactly, or just press thumbs up, then press it again to unselect. as you say it basically refreshes the observation in the database.

Can you link / send screenshots (before adding any additional IDs) next time you run into it?

certainly. will probably happen today at some point while I’m on.

Other possibility is nicolegallup opted out of community ID, IDd to kingdom, and didn’t yet narrow the ID. I see that most often with fungi.

Never considered anything like that. Perhaps I could message them and see if they checked any boxes like that. Would take away some of the guess work

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/41360394#activity_identification_93577209 [piggy1] [piggy2] Made sure to refresh the page and thumbs up “observation shows an organism”. Not an old one this time.

Lol I could have cropped that better. Don’t need to know what I’m watching :P

Genus level IDs showing up as kingdom level IDs

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benkendrick April 2, 2020, 9:24pm 5

Found another one from 1 year ago. Didn’t work. I think the fact the other one was 3 years old was a coincidence, 1 year isn’t all that old.

Topic		Replies	Views
IDs below species don't update Observation Taxon until confirmed by a 2nd identifier Bug Reports	3	745	October 19, 2019
Community ID stays at Genus when a subspecies ID is added, but not a species ID Bug Reports	1	606	May 5, 2020
Failure to update community ID when subspecies identified Bug Reports	1	464	May 6, 2022
Community ID bug with subspecies Bug Reports	10	1038	June 23, 2019
Species ID not changing appropriately Bug Reports	7	1020	June 26, 2020

Genus level IDs showing up as kingdom level IDs

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